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16

Target Called, Your Photos Are Done

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First we had Walmart call with a batch of the craziest, weirdest and most completely ridiculous family portraits ever… Walmart called, your photos are done.

Now Target is calling with their own photos and taking crazy to a whole new level…You’ll laugh so hard you’ll hurt your eyes!

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Jan
16

By IHWIR Admin

These Pictures Show Why Target Canada Were Such a Failure.

Category: Retail Articles, Target Tags: retail articles, Target, Target Canada Leave a Comment

header — Just look at all those empty shelves.

Target is giving up on Canada. The retailer announced today that it would close all 133 of its stores north of the border, which have been losing money since it arrived in the country less than two years ago, boldly venturing into its first international expansion.

By all accounts, the adventure has been an unmitigated disaster—a story of a company trying to accomplish too much, too fast, with too little thought. Target opened 124 stores at once in 2013. Rather than build its own real estate, it purchased leases on buildings that had belonged to Zellers, a “dying low-end retailer,” as Fortune puts it, whose locations were “dumpy, poorly configured for Target’s big-box layout, and were in areas not frequented by the middle class customers Target covets.”

But that wasn’t the real killer. Because it revved up so quickly, the company never had time to develop a working supply chain in Canada, which left its stores short on merchandise and full of empty shelves. After the market researchers Belus Capital Advisors published pictures of the barren aisles, it led to headlines like this from DailyMail.com:

Here’s a taste of what Target’s Canada stores looked like. Notice something missing?

No, they probably didn’t have your size.

You probably get the idea.

But seriously.

It was bad.

Nobody likes shopping in a picked-over retail ruin. But, there wasn’t much individual stores could do to improve their appearances. As a former Target employee explained in an email to Gawker, there was no way for the Canadian stores to tell distribution centers what items they needed each day. If they were out of eggs, or milk, or shirts, they had to hope those things would show up on a truck full of mystery merchandise that arrived each morning. Meanwhile, the company’s rulebook prevented employees from filling the barren shelves with whatever else they had on hand. The end result: understocked, uninviting stores that couldn’t even compete on price with Walmart, which began offering discounts to undercut its rival. Target seems to have realized that with all the damage already done, it wasn’t going to recover.

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Jan
16

By IHWIR Admin

23 Things All Former Video Store Employees Know To Be True

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1. The best perk in the world was hiring movies for free.

23 Things All Former Video Store Employees Know To Be True

NBC

2. … In mass quantities, because you considered the store an extension of your personal collection.

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3. And keeping them all for weeks, much to the dismay of your boss, who was like…

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4. You also worked the system by charging snacks to your account, which you never planned to pay off.

Oxygen

5. This scene from Clerks is the most accurate thing you have ever seen, and you’ve seen A LOT, because hello, you worked at a video store.

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6. You’ve seen nearly every film within the realm of your interest range from the time that you worked there.

Bravo Networks

Bravo Networks

7. … Regardless of its quality.

Syfy Films

8. Friends ask you for movie recommendations and you get way too excited.

Bravo Networks

9. You would never get to bed at a regular hour, as you’d finish late and stay up all night watching movies.

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Showtime

10. Having first pick of the new releases made you feel like a ~VIP~.

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11. Every now and then your boss would ask you to clean the store. You’d be like:

Oxygen

… And then sort of walk aimlessly around the store while holding cleaning products.

12. Calling all the people on the overdue list was a tedious, slow-release nightmare…

FOX

13. … But it helped you perfect the art of sounding chipper while having an uncomfortable conversation.

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“Hi, this is Stephanie from Blockbuster video! I’m just calling because you’ve got the movie Torque, and it’s actually 72 days overdue??”
“I never hired that.”
“Actually, sir, I remember hiring it out to you, and asking you to return it two weeks ago when you were in the store last, and you didn’t deny hiring it then, sooo…?”
*click*

14. It also taught you how to cope with a customer loudly berating you on a Saturday night in front of a line of 25 customers, while you’re working by yourself, over a 50 cent late fee.

AMC

AMC

AMC

“I’m sixteen years old and being paid minimum wage to deal with you, but would you like me to pay your FIFTY CENT fine out of my purse in front of all these customers you’re holding up while you berate me? Because I can afford it. Also I remember you bringing the movie back late because it happened three days ago.”

15. You’re really, really skilled at answering questions like “You know that movie? The one with that guy from that show? It was on a few weeks ago, you must’ve seen it. You KNOW THE ONE I MEAN!”

Sony Pictures Entertainment

16. You also have a bizarre knack for recalling obscure things about movie covers that help you locate them quickly.

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

“Do you have The Tracker?”
“Oh yeah! I saw it just before”
*locates DVD by the font on the spine of the case*

17. Sometimes, you’d get drunk on power and experience a teensy, tiny amount of pleasure in calling a teenager’s parents to request permission to rent them an R-rated movie, and then having to relay to them that their parent said no.

The Weinstein Company

… In front of all their friends.

18. The tapes played on a loop were the devil.

The same hour of previews, and two music videos, every hour, for eight hours, four times a week. You still can’t listen to any of the songs that were the featured music videos, because they haunted you in your dreams for long months after they’d been retired from the loop tape.

19. Preview tapes, on the other hand…

MTV

Watching the next month’s releases before they come out? Yes, please.

20. Speaking of tapes, when customers would return their VHS tape without rewinding them, this would be your reaction:

Bravo Networks

21. On the other hand, the anticipation of wondering if your customer crush would come to “visit you” at any moment was the high point of many of your shifts.

ABC Family

22. And you were guilty of checking their account like a creeper to see if they have any rentals due back that day.

Bravo Networks

23. Finally, you made at least one genuine friend after chatting with your regular customers and discovering you have the same taste in films.

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Target Called, Your Photos Are Done

These Pictures Show Why Target Canada Were Such a Failure.

23 Things All Former Video Store Employees Know To Be True

1. The best perk in the world was hiring movies for free.

2. … In mass quantities, because you considered the store an extension of your personal collection.

3. And keeping them all for weeks, much to the dismay of your boss, who was like…

4. You also worked the system by charging snacks to your account, which you never planned to pay off.

5. This scene from Clerks is the most accurate thing you have ever seen, and you’ve seen A LOT, because hello, you worked at a video store.

6. You’ve seen nearly every film within the realm of your interest range from the time that you worked there.

7. … Regardless of its quality.

8. Friends ask you for movie recommendations and you get way too excited.

9. You would never get to bed at a regular hour, as you’d finish late and stay up all night watching movies.

10. Having first pick of the new releases made you feel like a ~VIP~.

11. Every now and then your boss would ask you to clean the store. You’d be like:

12. Calling all the people on the overdue list was a tedious, slow-release nightmare…

13. … But it helped you perfect the art of sounding chipper while having an uncomfortable conversation.

14. It also taught you how to cope with a customer loudly berating you on a Saturday night in front of a line of 25 customers, while you’re working by yourself, over a 50 cent late fee.

15. You’re really, really skilled at answering questions like “You know that movie? The one with that guy from that show? It was on a few weeks ago, you must’ve seen it. You KNOW THE ONE I MEAN!”

16. You also have a bizarre knack for recalling obscure things about movie covers that help you locate them quickly.

17. Sometimes, you’d get drunk on power and experience a teensy, tiny amount of pleasure in calling a teenager’s parents to request permission to rent them an R-rated movie, and then having to relay to them that their parent said no.

18. The tapes played on a loop were the devil.

19. Preview tapes, on the other hand…

20. Speaking of tapes, when customers would return their VHS tape without rewinding them, this would be your reaction:

21. On the other hand, the anticipation of wondering if your customer crush would come to “visit you” at any moment was the high point of many of your shifts.

22. And you were guilty of checking their account like a creeper to see if they have any rentals due back that day.

23. Finally, you made at least one genuine friend after chatting with your regular customers and discovering you have the same taste in films.

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23 Things All Former Video Store Employees Know To Be True

1. The best perk in the world was hiring movies for free.

2. … In mass quantities, because you considered the store an extension of your personal collection.

3. And keeping them all for weeks, much to the dismay of your boss, who was like…

4. You also worked the system by charging snacks to your account, which you never planned to pay off.

5. This scene from Clerks is the most accurate thing you have ever seen, and you’ve seen A LOT, because hello, you worked at a video store.

6. You’ve seen nearly every film within the realm of your interest range from the time that you worked there.

7. … Regardless of its quality.

8. Friends ask you for movie recommendations and you get way too excited.

9. You would never get to bed at a regular hour, as you’d finish late and stay up all night watching movies.

10. Having first pick of the new releases made you feel like a ~VIP~.

11. Every now and then your boss would ask you to clean the store. You’d be like:

12. Calling all the people on the overdue list was a tedious, slow-release nightmare…

13. … But it helped you perfect the art of sounding chipper while having an uncomfortable conversation.

14. It also taught you how to cope with a customer loudly berating you on a Saturday night in front of a line of 25 customers, while you’re working by yourself, over a 50 cent late fee.

15. You’re really, really skilled at answering questions like “You know that movie? The one with that guy from that show? It was on a few weeks ago, you must’ve seen it. You KNOW THE ONE I MEAN!”

16. You also have a bizarre knack for recalling obscure things about movie covers that help you locate them quickly.

17. Sometimes, you’d get drunk on power and experience a teensy, tiny amount of pleasure in calling a teenager’s parents to request permission to rent them an R-rated movie, and then having to relay to them that their parent said no.

18. The tapes played on a loop were the devil.

19. Preview tapes, on the other hand…

20. Speaking of tapes, when customers would return their VHS tape without rewinding them, this would be your reaction:

21. On the other hand, the anticipation of wondering if your customer crush would come to “visit you” at any moment was the high point of many of your shifts.

22. And you were guilty of checking their account like a creeper to see if they have any rentals due back that day.

23. Finally, you made at least one genuine friend after chatting with your regular customers and discovering you have the same taste in films.

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